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Several rows of colorful patterned pagnes
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The Impatient
By Djaïli Amadou Amal
“Love doesn’t exist before marriage, Ramla. It’s time you come back down to earth.”
Translated from French by Emma Ramadan
The covers of the books featured in the Watchlist: The Blunder, Carnality, Of Saints and Miracles,...
The Watchlist: July 2022
By Tobias Carroll
Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books from Cameroon, Mexico, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and Kazakhstan.
An International Menagerie: Animal Stories
By Susan Harris
Some of the animals here possess the power of speech, deploying it to often subversive ends.
The Madman of Bonanjo
By Alain Mabanckou
You can hang a man from a tree, but you cannot hang History with him.
Translated from French by Helen Stevenson
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The Avenging Whip
By Max Lobe
In my line of business, people don’t talk much.
Translated from French by Ros Schwartz